The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-02
IN THE BATH ROOM.
A'cLEAN OLD CUSTOM HANDED
DOWN FROM ANTIQUITY.

The Various Styles OF Baths, Their His
tory and Charaeteristics-The Primi-
tive Bath-Turkish and Russian Baths.
Mud Bath.
The bath is as old as the hills 1t comes
down from the most remote antiquity.
The Egyptians used to bathe in the Nile.
The Hebrews made bathing compulsory
by law, and the Mohammedans and Hin
docs enforce It as a duty of religion.
Public baths were among the public insti-
buttons Of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks
n Romans. II Pharaoh's lovely
daughter hadn't gone bathing In the Nile
Moses might never have been discovered
in the bullrushes. II Nausicaa and her
fair companions had mot bathed them
selves in the waters Of the sea the ship
wrecked Ulysses might never have been
rescued. So it will be seen that the bath
is hoary, venerable and patriatchal.
But the primitive bath was q simple
process compared with the elaborate bath
Of modern times. 1t was merely o
plunge into the impid water Of some
flowing stream. Now tho bath Is q scien-
tifc process, presided over by competent
attendants and regulated by the watch
and the thermometer. The bath most
popular with the American people, bar
ring, of course, the domestic tub, q tho
Turkish bath. Why 1t Is called Turk
ish" surpasseth all understanding. It In
probably, though, because the Turks re-
cline in a most luxuriant bath in perfumed
water, while about the edges Of the mar
BILE basin grow fragrant flowers and bloom
ing rose trees, filling the apartment with
their ravishing scent. The Turkish bath
was first introduced into England about
the middle OF the SOS by . nobleman,
David Urquhart by name, who had re-
ceived the impression in the Orient. This
country adopted the Turkish bath about
twenty years ago.
TAKING A TURKISH A
Have you ever taken q Turkish BATH
MOI Then, in the language of Edwin
Forrest, you shave never risen to the dig
nifty Of being personally clean"
When you go to a Turkish bath house
you first enter the office, where You regis
ter, deposit your valuables and receive o
check for them. Then you pass into the
muctaly. "Muctaly" must be the Turk
for cool room. At any rate muctaly Is the
cool room. In one Of the numerous com-
partments Of this apartment you disrobe
and invest yourself in q bathing garment,
then you pass into the warm room, tho
t~epidanum, they call It, where you en-.
counter a temperature Of 100 to 40 dogs.
Fahrenheit. Here you recline on o couch
until the Precipitation is freely started.
When the skin has become sufficiently
soft and moist-the attendant frequently
passes his hand over the body to ascertain
il 1t has arrived at the proper state-you
are ushered into the hot room, which Is
plain English for the calidanum, as tho
apartment is called, where the temperature
is 40 dogs. higher than in the warm room.
In the hot room the attendants lay you
upon a heated marble slab, and tho
perspiration becomes moro and moro pro-
fuse, while the attendant thoroughly
manipulates the body with a towel. From
this room you pass into a still hotter hot
room, where the temperature is geo to $40
degrees. You perspire o few moro timco
in this room, when you are conducted into
the shampooing room, where enough tcpid
water is sprinkled over you to removo tho
perspiration. Then you arc stretched out
upon another marble slab and receive
another manipulation. Tho wind up con-
sists in the attendant thoroughly washing
the body with a 1ather Of Doap md water,
~sprinkling the bather over with o tcpid
spray, and the bather taking o plunge In
the swimming bath.
THE RUSSIAN BATH.
The Russian bath is SO called becauro
the Russians from long ago have INDUCED
in q hot vapor bath. The Rusaian bath
differs from tho Turkish bath in THU
essential particular: In o Russian bnth
the room is filed with hot vapor; In tho
Turkish bath the room Is filled with hot
air. .
The Russian bath is attaining popu-
larity with the busy, bustling American
people for the reason that 1t doesn't tako
long. A Russian bath can be taken In q
quarter the time that 1t requires for o
Turkish bath. A comparatively new idea
In baths is the electric bath. This IL o
medicated bath prescribed for neuralgia,
ORDERS. The bathers enter = bath Tub.
around the inside of which are a number
OF electric buttons. During the bath q
current Of electricity il turned into the
water through these conductors from q
battery, manipulated by an attendant
Inc sensation, instead of being unplea-
SAINT, or producing a shock such as con-
tact with q battery produces, Il said tn IN
Oh Of intense delight.
The mud bath Is INDUCED In almost nm,
tirely Is a remedy for blood disorders.
The bather is placed In q bath tub and
covered up to the chin with q thick coat
ing Of heated mud. As one coating cools
on Q fresh warm coating is applied. This
neated mud is supposed to act as o poui-
tice and draw out the impurities Of tho
system. There ia one peculiarly about
the Turkish bath that is not generally
known, and that Is Its influence to pre-
serve the equilibrium of the bather's |
weight. II the bather Is above his normal /
WEIGHT, hat 10, above a weight suitable to |
Us mud Gnu temperament, the Turkish
bath will reduce him. II lie Is below Ma |
@nnT'ias :se!eht 1. I'll! increase it.-Cl.-
cinuati EDoni5s.